I felt quite at ease already and didn't feel like the earlier joint did anything to me so I took a big hit and held the smoke in my lungs a long time....When I finally exhaled the world swam in front of my eyes. Now I really felt the effects of it.Jason got out and turned some music on and the joint finally made it to Elaine and I could tell she didn't want to smoke it. Steve kept trying to hold it up to her mouth and she kept pushing his hand away."Steve, here let me try," I said moving towards. "I'm glad, Daddy. I'm glad you've found someone you can have as a friend." I'm glad too. It's nice to have someone I can spend time with and talk about something other than work."Al had reserved a power cart for the ladies, the pro shop reminding them that they had to stay on the path and off the fairway. He and I walked the course as we usually did. It was cool, but the sun was out and, properly dressed, we were warm enough. The girls had some mittens as Al reminded them that it was colder. )Their placements meant I had changes of clothes in several compass directions around where I'd be appearing in LA, so there'd be something handy no matter what direction I end up fleeing in.All the emergency escape stashes placed, I flew back to where the Santa Monica Mountains meet the coast northwest of LA, before Malibu. I found an exact location not far offshore of an unpopulated area, which I could easily locate again because of the way the onshore geography lined up to triangulate to. " We got one hell-of-a bargain."(Eyebrows proceeding past hairline ... Big Eyes, all around, please ... thank you.)The three men were the gallery at a tennis match ... watching this serve and that return and so on during the entire conversation.Finally, Ed said, "Shall we look at the notes?" They relieved the trunk of the chests.As soon as Ed plied his knives and Seph performed a well placed kick to dislodge the inner lining, the fun began.It wasn't the currency so much, that was expected ....